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"Got it," Manus says in response to the Captain's orders; pulling all of the needed pieces off of the shelves before attempting to jury-rig a com-link together.
"Sorry sir, but I seem to be missing one or two important components..."
"Roger that," Manus briskly says as he raises his rifle and heads on out.
"Sorry, but we don't have the time to fix them up, and I definitely don't have the time to extract the missile launchers. They'll have to do in their current condition." Standing back up, Manus readies his rifle, and is set to get moving.
Not sure; lemme give it a look..."
Wincing as Rolin patches him up, Manus turns to Jack, "Thanks for that; a shame about Nalis, but thankfully I'm not forced to deal with the computers; I've always been better with hardware than software. Anyways, would you need some help to put up a firewall to stop the rebels from taking control back? Because we need to get to the command tower and capture the rebel leaders once the generator is secured."
"Well, here goes nothing," Manus says with a swallows as he hefts the explosive package and then darts out of cover, heading towards the mostly uninjured crab droid, and hurling the paired blocks of detonite underhanded at it, blowing it once it is near the feet of the droid.
Muttering to himself about "frakking droids" Manus keeps his head down while pulling out a couple of blocks of plastic explosives and binding them together with some mesh tape before popping in a detonator and securing it with more mesh tape. Hefting it he gets ready to toss it in.
"Yep, Calahan was right; we should have a rocket launcher for this." Taking the time to line up the shot, Manus fires away at the damaged combat droid
Grunting as a couple of blaster bolts graze him, scorching his armor and giving him a few small burns, Manus takes a deep breath, steps up, and lobs his grenade towards the droid that shot at him.
Climbing to his feet, Manus shakes this head, trying to clear it before scrambling into the doorway and laying flat against the wall to see the attacking droids, a frag grenade in hand.
Hearing the blaster fire all around him, Manus shoves Calahan out of the way, hops into the landspeeder to position it for ramming the wall and then gets out to jam the accelerator down with the helmet from Rolins. Leaping back, the landspeeder races towards the wall...
"I don't think that you driving this speeder would be such a good idea; she's going to make a helluva battering ram, and you do not want to be in the middle of it..."
Looking up as he begins to wire in the explosives, Manus looks over Rolin's shoulder saying, "Right, thanks for the help with the fuel lines, do you mind grabbing one of those rebels' helmets to wedge the accelerator down?"
Whistling as he works, somewhat oblivious to what's going on, Manus looks up at the alarm going off before diving back underneath the hood of the landspeeder muttering to himself about "Frakking gun-happy troopers..."
Looking over the landspeeder, Manus begins to follow the appropriate wires that would need to be cut and spliced in order to hot wire the vehicle before looking up at Rolin's and Calahan's conversation. "So what are we doing? Because I'm fairly positive that I can get this baby to work as an impromptu battering ram..."
"Roger." Taking care to keep his head down, Manus moves toward the barricade, firing as he comes to a stop.
Attack:
"Sorry folks; you chose the wrong side." Manus quietly says to himself as flicks the carbine to autofire and begins to unload on the rebel militia.
Making sure that no one is in the way, Manus quickly says, "You might want to look away," before he sets off the explosive.
Looking up as people are calling his name, Manus pulls himself together as he has not had much actual combat experience, mainly being stationed at bases and on starships where his technical knowledge is most useful.
"Alright, everybody get out of the way; once this blows you want to get through the hole ASAP, because this place will probably be coming down."
Mechanics Check to place the device:
Arming a frag grenade, Manus tosses a frag grenade over the barrier, following Harry's stun grenade.
Listening to the battle-hardened veteran's plan, Manus simply says, "Roger" before moving in and opening up on the rebels along the way.
Smiling when the door opens with virtually no problem, Manus's face quickly switches to an expression of "Oh crap" when the grenade comes popping out of door and blows, knocking the wind out of him. Peeking around the edge of the door to get an idea as to where they are hiding, he picks up his carbine and dashes across the field of fire to get to a location where he can return fire and drops prone to offer a smaller target.
"I might not need to blow this open, just give me a few seconds..." Pulling out his security kit, Manus begins to work on the door, trying to get it so that way he can open it at a moment's notice.
Sprinting to the edge of the bunker and using it as cover, Private Manus aims his carbine right at the door, ready to shoot at anyone coming through, waiting for the rest of his squad to catch up to him.
Whispering over the comlink a nearly inaudible "Aye-aye, sir," Manus quickly nods to Nalis and with a quiet "Cover me," he slips out of cover, a grenade in each hand and he quickly darts as close to the bunker as he can before tossing in one of the grenades, armed and ready to blow.
Attack via Frag Grenade: (Point-Blank Shot; I think it'd apply to the attack roll, but probably not the damage) that I'm Force Pointing for the extra accuracy: Damage:
Creeping forward, a grenade in hand, PFC Manus continues to try to get closer to the bunker before the blaster bolts start flying.
"Fair point Calahan, but if I am able to sneak up close enough, tossing in a few grenades would take no effort, especially if they aren't paying attention to me. And if you start firing when I get about here , I should be able to sneak around them and blow them sky high. Now I only have two frags; if anyone else has an extra they'd like to donate to the cause..."
Listening to the tactics that are being discussed for Iggins, Calahan, and Rolin, Gil speaks up once they start talking about targets.
Taking care to keep his head down, Gil waits for Iggins's recon as he slips out of the drop-pod and crouches in some nearby brush, not moving more than a dozen meters from the drop site.
Taking care to properly stow the varied explosives that he has been provided, Manus snaps to attention when the Colonel addresses him. "No sir, that won't be necessary," he says before heading off to his bunk, to get as much shut-eye as possible, as he is going to need it for the mission.
Listening to the tactical briefing, Gil looks like he is simply passively absorbing the given information, but anyone who looks at his eyes can see their rapid movement as he scans the maps taking in all of the relevant information. "Sir, what sort of explosives will we be given for this mission?" he asks, still staring at the map, trying to commit it to memory as best he can. "Also, regarding the shield generator, what degree of destruction would be acceptable? I ask because if time is such an important factor, the most time efficient route would be to simply blow the shield's power source; take that out, the shield goes down quickly, and the explosives can be detonated remotely so that way we can blow them while on the move, minimizing the likelihood of being caught, and unless it is something exotic, the power supply to the shield generator ought not to be too difficult to replace, sir."
Looking at his wrist chrono, PFC Guillermo Manus swears before bolting from the docking bay where he was helping a new mechanic fix a damaged shuttle engine, "Sorry, I've got a meeting to catch, you can take it from hear, right?" he says as he dashes to get to his new assignment on time, wiping his hands on the grease towel he carries with him. "Damn it, I even got here early to avoid this..." he thinks to himself as he nears the conference room where he is to meet his new squad.
AlanM, on your sheet, your Fort and Reflex should be 5 higher. You add your level to all defenses. Thanks, I thought I tweaked that, but I must have forgotten to hit save. And it's actually 7 and 6 respectively (due to the Stormtrooper Armor)
Hit Points
Oops, for some reason I thought scoundrel had a d8, not a d6
And the reroll
And the reroll's reroll
And the total is
"Second Lieutenant Guillermo Manus reporting for duty, sir." Here's my submission for a field engineer/demolitions officer.
Also, I have a quick question regarding character creation: Are you using Destinies and/or Backgrounds? |